Thumbnail

One of the thumbnails I drew for this commission! The commissioner wanted a few important places to him and his SO in the background, as well as the theme of trees. This is based on their wedding photos as well, so they're all dressed up :)

Thumbnail

Another thumbnail option I generated for the client! We ended up going with the first one.

Sketch

Sketching out the full 11"x17" piece.

Lineart

Lineart using the G-pen and Turnip pen in Clip Studio! I moved the left half of the girl's hair over the right a bit after realizing her hairline was too far back. The background will be painted, so no lineart behind them.

Flats

I forgot to snap a picture of this part :( I flatted by first filling in the background with a greenish color to set the overall palette, then used the paint bucket tool + pen to fill in colors for the couple one section at a time, each section on its own layer.

Shading

I then shade! Usually I like to shade by roughly blocking out lights and shadows for all layers at once so I have a good idea as to what I want it to look like. Then I will go one layer at a time and refine the light and shadow.
Lastly, I looked a lot of reference photos for grassy fields and went crazy painting the background. The field is on its own layer, and trees are on a layer on top. I gave the background a more purple color near the bottom so that the viewers' eyes would be drawn towards the center of the picture where the couple's faces are.
Lastly, a top layer of leaves frames the image. I blurred it a bit so they're not too distracting.

Does the program smooth out the lines? Or is that just the pen you're using? BECAUSE THAT LINEWORK IS SUPER ENVIABLE! The end piece looks so cute! I did want to ask why the BG items got moved further in the back? Was there a particular reason?

rincs Yes, the program does smooth out the lines! I'd never be able to get it that smooth by hand hahaha. I moved the BG items to the back because once I started working on shading, I realized the angle at which I drew the BG didn't match the angle at which I drew the people... moving the BG items to be more distant helped. I wish I had taken a screenshot of it before I had changed it!

rincs oh whoops, I forgot to mention the program! It's Clip Studio Paint, which is awesome, it's like SAI and Photoshop combined! Haha yeah, the places are on a hill because... I dunno... it was easier than making them even further back. How does perspective even work. :P